He didn’t run off with the free money he was able to withdraw from the bank accounts in his scheme. At least not all of it. He used part of it to fund anticapitalist and anarchist movements. He cofounded the Cooperativa Integral Catalana, or CIC, which was intended to create a self-sustained economy outside of the state. Activists of the organization negotiated to buy an enormous piece of land complete with a decrepit factory complex. The owner was about to sell it to someone who wanted to turn it into a waste disposal plant, but the activists’ bigger vision finally won. They agreed on a
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